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Systems of Record

A Digital FTE is an AI employee built for one role on your team. We ground it in your rules and your data, our engineers deploy it inside your business, and your people stay in charge of every result.

The model

An AI workforce your team can trust

Digital FTEs work alongside your people and read from the same trusted sources your business already runs on.

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Digital FTEs

A Digital FTE is an AI employee with one clear job, like answering support questions or following up on leads. It works inside the tools your team already uses, so nobody has to learn a new system to work with it.

What this looks like

  • One Digital FTE for each role you need
  • Works in your existing apps and inboxes
  • Available around the clock, without breaks
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Hybrid Workforce

Your people and your Digital FTEs work as one team. People do what people are best at, like judgement, relationships and ideas, while Digital FTEs handle the volume and repetition.

What this looks like

  • People keep the decisions that need judgement
  • Digital FTEs take the repetitive volume
  • One team, with a clear split of who does what
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The 10-80-10 Rule

Every piece of work follows a simple pattern. Your team sets the goal at the start, the Digital FTE does most of the work in the middle, and your team checks and approves the result at the end.

What this looks like

  • First 10%: your team decides what good looks like
  • Middle 80%: the Digital FTE does the heavy lifting
  • Final 10%: your team reviews and signs off
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KSoR: Knowledge System of Record

This is the rulebook your Digital FTEs follow: your policies, procedures and ways of working, kept in one place. Every document has an owner and a version, so you can always see where an answer came from.

What this looks like

  • All your approved rules and methods in one home
  • Each document owned, versioned and reviewed
  • Every answer traceable to its source
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DSoR: Data System of Record

These are the systems that hold your live numbers, like your CRM, ERP or accounts. The rulebook says how things should be done; these systems say what is true right now.

What this looks like

  • Connected to the systems you already run on
  • Always working from the latest figures
  • No copies of your data drifting out of date
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System of Context

For each task, this layer gathers exactly what the Digital FTE needs from your rulebook and your live data, and nothing more. It only reaches what your team has given it permission to see.

What this looks like

  • Pulls the right rules and data for each task
  • Leaves out what is not relevant
  • Respects the permissions your team sets

The 10-80-10 Rule

Nothing ships without your sign-off

First 10%: your team defines the goal, the rules and who approves what. Middle 80%: Digital FTEs do the repetitive, round-the-clock work. Final 10%: your people review the result and make the call. Your team spends less time on busywork and more on the decisions only they can make.

How we deliver

Forward Deployed Engineers, inside your business

We do not hand over a tool and leave. Our engineers join your team, fit each Digital FTE to your workflows and prove the result in your real work.

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Forward Deployed Engineers

Our engineers do not work from a distance. They join your team, learn your systems and rules, and then build, launch and run your Digital FTEs alongside your people.

What this looks like

  • Engineers embedded in your business
  • They learn your systems before they build
  • They stay on to run it with your team
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Outcome Architect

One person owns the business result, not just the technology. They agree the problem to solve, redesign how work flows between your people and Digital FTEs, and make sure your team actually uses it.

What this looks like

  • A single owner for the business outcome
  • Workflows redesigned around people and AI
  • Adoption tracked, not assumed
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Contract of Success

Before we build anything, we write down three things together: where you are today, where you want to get to, and exactly what counts as done. Everyone knows the finish line from the start.

What this looks like

  • Today's baseline, measured and agreed
  • A clear target to reach
  • Acceptance criteria that define done
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Proof in Production

We prove the value in your real, day-to-day work, not in a demo. You see your business numbers move against the baseline, how much your team uses it, and how well it keeps performing.

What this looks like

  • Business KPIs compared with the baseline
  • Real usage by your team
  • Ongoing checks on quality
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Guardrails and Approvals

Safety is built into the system from day one. Digital FTEs can only do what they are allowed to do, and anything sensitive waits for a person to approve it.

What this looks like

  • Permissions that limit what each Digital FTE can do
  • Approval gates for sensitive actions
  • Policy checks on every step
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Continuous Improvement

Launch is the start, not the end. We keep watching how each Digital FTE performs, fix what drifts and update its knowledge whenever your policies or systems change.

What this looks like

  • Performance monitored after launch
  • Regular evaluations and fixes
  • Knowledge kept current as things change

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

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